In Science and Technology this term, Year 2 are learning about living things and where they live (their habitats).

Living things move, grow, need food and water, reproduce and breathe.

Habitats are the natural home or environment of a living thing. For example, forests, deserts, oceans, wetlands, grasslands, mountains, fresh water and the north pole.

Within habitats, there are microhabitats. Microhabitats are small habitats. They are small places, but many animals can live there. For example, under logs, small clumps of grass, under rocks, under bushes, trees, flowers and a rock pool.

Last week, Year 2 predicted what animals they might find in microhabitats around our school. They then explored garden beds, pots, trees and small bushes with magnifying glasses to see what animals they could find.

Take a look at the photos below!

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Click on the image below to play a game. Be a garden detective and find all the small creatures in the garden.

What animals did you find in our playground?

What animals have you found in a garden, park or beach?

What did you like about the Garden Detective game?

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About Miss Ashley Azzopardi

My name is Ashley Azzopardi and I teach a Year 2 class in Sydney, Australia.

Dear Year two,
I found a beetle in the playground, a ladybug and a worm.
I’ve found a crab, jellyfish and dolphin at the beach!
I liked garden detective because you could find some interesting bugs like a wasp

Dear year two,
I really enjoyed it when Miss Azzopardi’s group use magnify glasses to zoom in and see tiny small insects.
I t was really fun learning and seeing new types of insects.
I was shocked when I saw a dragonfly and a yellow ladybug.
What did you do in your group and what type of insect did you see?
Kind Regards
C.N

Dear year two,
I enjoyed the time when we was being a garden detective and I found a mealworm in the soil
And we found a black beetle in a flower I was in Miss Forester’s group I used my magnetfinding glass to look at the creatures I glanced carefully at the insects and on the big play ground I saw an orange ant it was speedy and fast once I found a swallow when I was walking to school!
I really enjoyed the garden detective game because we found different types of insects and we
Learned lots about habitats!

Dear year 2,
I really enjoyed looking for insects. I found a butterfly, werm, spider and bees. At lunch Iwas rolling on the grass. Sabina said theres a bee on your back then I was jumping around but good thing that Isabella got it off. I feet like yelling becuase I thought that the bee would sting me. The funnest on the excursion was the train but we diden’t go on the train.

Dear year two ,
I found a butterfly on the play ground that has black and orange speckled wings.Once I found a crab in the rock pool when I went to the beach,I like the garden detective game because I get to find minibeasts.

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